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Disable Microsoft Edge Tab Preloading in Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with a new default browser, Microsoft Edge. It's a Universal app which has extension support, a fast rendering engine and a simplified user interface. In this article, we will see how to prevent the Edge app from automatically preloading the start and new tab pages when you open the app.

Microsoft Edge can load the Start and New Tab page during Windows sign in and each time Microsoft Edge is closed. By default it is allowed to preload these pages.

Microsoft Edge loads the Start and New Tab page during Windows sign in and each time Microsoft Edge is closed in order to minimize the amount of time required to start up Microsoft Edge and to start a new tab.

If you have issues with this behavior, you can disable it. Starting in Windows 10 version 1809, there is a special Group Policy option which controls the page preloading feature. It can be enabled or disabled with either Local Group Policy Editor or REGEDIT.exe. Here is how.

To disable Microsoft Edge tab preloading in Windows 10, do the following.

Here, create a new 32-bit DWORD value AllowTabPreloading. Note: Even if you are running 64-bit Windows, you still need to use a 32-bit DWORD as the value type. Leave its value data as 0 to disable the tab preloading feature.

To make the changes done by the Registry tweak take effect, you need to sign out and sign in again to your user account.

Later, you can delete the AllowTabPreloading value to restore defaults.

Disable Microsoft Edge tab preloading in Windows 10 for all users

To disable the Microsoft Edge pre-launching feature for all users, ensure that you are signed in as Administrator before proceeding.

About Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer from Russia who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.